Word: postered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koerner's June Night (see color pages'). Emerging one evening from the Kings Highway elevated station in Brooklyn, Koerner came face to face with a scene very much like the scene in the painting. The mural ad (for a photographer who specialized in wedding pictures), the poster with the sleeping baby, and even the blimp, were all there. What first struck Koerner about the bride & groom on the poster was that they reminded him of his parents. His second reaction was that they represented a gigantic "illusion" of wedded bliss, superimposed on the brick reality of the apartment...
...architecturally constructed picture. He captured, then dramatically heightened, the hot, wet, rosy light enveloping the scene. The blimp, when he saw it, carried a Goodyear sign; he substituted Socony's flying red horse "because I thought it was a nicer shape." The baby's head in the poster he enlarged considerably, and embellished with sinister rips. By its size and its leaden slumber, the baby dominated the picture; he might have been dreaming it all, and he might have represented Koerner himself...
...party photographed him, sporting a borrowed tie, against a party poster of an old woman begging alms. A comrade pointed meaningly to the poster. "Do you know what that means?" he asked...